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C17: probably special use of graze1; related to Swedish gräsa

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Wortformen:grazes, grazing, grazed

Definitionen

1. ergative verb & verb

When animals graze or are grazed, they eat the grass or other plants that are growing in a particular place. You can alsosay that a field is grazed by animals. [V] ⇒ Five cows graze serenely around a massive oak. [beV-ed] ⇒ The hills have been grazed by sheep because they were too steep to be ploughed. [V n] ⇒ Several horses grazed the meadowland. [V-ing] ⇒ ...a large herd of grazing animals.

2. verb

If you graze a part of your body, you injure your skin by scraping against something. [V n] ⇒ I had grazed my knees a little.

If something grazes another thing, it touches that thing lightly as it passes by. [V n] ⇒ A bullet had grazed his arm. [V n] ⇒ Wright managed a shot but it grazed the near post and rolled harmlessly across the goal.

Beispielsätze, die 'graze' enthalten

She put her hand to her head and discovered a bump and a graze ; but fortunately no blood.Weldon, Fay SPLITTINGFurther back he felt something else graze the tips of his fingers.Stuart Harrison LOST SUMMERMereyards behind her the water had been at most four and a half feet deep; now her toes didn't even graze solid earth.Clive Barker THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOWMr. Periwinkle is getting up there in age and can't graze too well on his own.Cussler, Clive INCA GOLD

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Britisches Englisch: grazeVERBWhen animals graze or are grazed, they eat the grass or other plants that are growing in a particular place. You can also say that a field is grazed by animals.Five cows graze serenely around a massive oak.